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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause read more
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
 Ask you what provocation I have had?
 The strong antipathy of good to bad.  
 Ask you what provocation I have had?
 The strong antipathy of good to bad. 
 Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
 That we find out the cause of this effect--
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 Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
 That we find out the cause of this effect--
  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
   For this effect defective comes by cause.
    Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. 
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his read more
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of read more
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether read more
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one read more
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.